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Hi. I’m a postmodernist. I believe everyone has individual perspectives, and that individual truths can be an important thing. One person’s experience may be remarkably different than another, due to interpretation, context, and lived experience.

The number of people at an event does not fall under that bailwick.

“Why put him out there for the very first time, in front of thatpodium, to utter a provable falsehood?” Chuck Todd asked KellyanneConway, counselor to the president. “It’s a small thing, but the firsttime he confronts the public, it’s a falsehood?” After some tense back and forth, Conway offered this:

Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood,and they’re giving — our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternativefacts to that. But the point really is —

At thispoint, a visibly exasperated Todd cut in. “Wait a minute. Alternativefacts? Alternative facts? Four of the five facts he uttered . . . werejust not true. Alternative facts are not facts; they’re falsehoods.”

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The sad truth of this is that Conway pretty much owned that interview. When Chuck said, "I'm not laughing, I'm befuddled" that was pretty much the whole point of it, from Conway's, from Spicer's, from Trump's point of view. While we're talking about inauguration attendance, what aren't we talking about?